An oil tube manufacturer plans to open a $12.1 million plant in New Carlisle and use locally made steel.

Tejas Tubular Products Inc. will heat-treat and manufacture well casings for the oil and gas industry at its new factory. The company is moving into a vacant building in St. Joseph County, and setting up an operation that will be able to produce 72,000 tons of casing annually.

Chicago-based supplier Independence Tube will furnish the plant with tubing that it will upgrade into a more finished, higher-quality product, and the steel should primarily come from ArcelorMittal, said Darrell Ballinger, vice president of sales and marketing for Tejas Tubular. ArcelorMittal has several area oper ...

JMC Steel Group, the largest independent steel pipe and tube manufacturer in North America and parent company of Wheatland Tube, celebrated two years in Chicago with a guided plant tour, luncheon and visit from Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday, September 16, at the South Side Wheatland Tube manufacturing facility.

Mayor Emanuel gave a speech highlighting Wheatland Tube's contribution to local economic growth, after remarks from JMC's CEO, Barry Zekelman, who spoke to the company's role in strengthening Chicago's workforce. Guests were then invited to take guided tours of the plant.

"It's not always all about office work. It's about being able to do all ...

Atlas Tube, a division of JMC Steel Group, will host three special educational seminars in celebration of SteelDay, an annual event sponsored by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC). The seminars will be held 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Friday, October 4, in the Monroe Room at 222 West Adams Street in Chicago.

SteelDay is the steel industry's largest yearly educational and networking function. The event gives attendees the opportunity to interact and learn with industry professionals through free events hosted by AISC members and partners across the U.S.

A steelmaking company based in Dubai has chosen Buffalo for development of a new $102 million plant that will employ an estimated 172 workers.

Officials confirmed that Alita USA Holdings Inc. will construct a nearly 350,000-square-foot plant on a 30-acre site Rittling Boulevard in South Buffalo, an area near the former Republic Steel plant. Alita selected Buffalo over Houston.

Local and state development officials have been courting the project, dubbed “Project Hello” by the Buffalo Niagara Enterprise, for more than one year. An economic aid package is expected to be approved by the Western New York Power Proceeds Allocation Board, New York Power Authority, Empire State D ...

Marubeni-Itochu Steel Inc. agreed to buy Sooner Inc., the largest U.S. distributor of pipes for the oil and gas industry, for $600 million to tap the benefits of increased energy output in the U.S.

The Tokyo-based venture between Japan’s third-largest trading house Itochu Corp. (8001) and its fifth-largest Marubeni Corp. (8002) will gain access to Sooner’s five main U.S. supply bases and its clients, from multinational oil majors to independent producers, Marubeni-Itochu said in a statement today.

The U.S. accounts for 40 percent, or 5.5 million metric tons, of the global market for Oil Country Tubular Goods, or pipes used in the energy industry, and Sooner has the biggest clie ...

Izhora Pipe Mill, which specializes in the manufacture of large diameter pipes from strips produced by the Cherepovets Steel Mill, manufactured over 165,000 tonne of pipes in H1 2013 for use in major oil and gas projects in Russia and internationally. This represents a 2% sales increase as compared to the same period of 2012. Mr Nikolai Skorokhvatov CEO of IPM, said that “Major projects by Gazprom and Transneft in the first half of 2013 contributed to a growing demand for large diameter pipes and enabled IPM to operate at full capacity.”IPM’s contracts with Transneft in 2013 include supplies for the Arctic Circle Purpe pipeline as well as pipes for repair projects and other ...

Mayor Kevin Carr and Councilman Raymond Swank officially welcomed Mid-Ohio Tubing at the end of August.

Mid-Ohio Tubing LLC is a 60,000-square-foot welded steel tube mill facility in the former HiLo building on Elm Street where they manufacture round, square and rectangular industrial tubing.

Jamie Feick, CEO, and Wayne Riffe, president, opened the business Aug. 2, 2013. Feick has an extensive background in business, along with team sports.

A Lexington graduate, Feick played basketball during school and later was a coach at Lexington. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1996, and went on to play in the NBA for seven years. Later, he became a professional cutting horse tr ...